[Hiring] Radar Software Engineer @LeoLabs, Inc.

Role Description

We are currently looking for a Radar Software Engineer to support our growing team. Our Radar Systems group develops, maintains, and operates advanced software for phased array radars. This role would be responsible for many areas of our software stack at our radars including, but certainly not limited to:

• Deploy infrastructure
• Monitoring stack
• Real-time GPU processing software
• Test infrastructure

This position is remote in the United States.

Your work directly impacts mission-critical radar systems that support national security, commercial space operations, and global space safety by enabling precise detection, tracking, and analysis of objects in space.

Daily work focuses on software development in the following key areas:

• Software Development & System Reliability
  • Build out tests and observability tooling (logs, metrics, alerts)
  • Improve unit test speed and parallelization
  • Simplify and document local unit test execution for all team members
  • Develop and integrate system/integration tests into the automated testing pipeline
  • Rewrite and harden the radar deployment system for robustness, speed, and reliability
  • Maintain CI pipelines and GitHub Actions workflows for the radar software stack
  • Build and maintain a Radar team operational dashboard
• Infrastructure & Data
  • Develop new data plotting and file writing utilities for data output
  • Benchmark and analyze Linux system tuning for real-time radar applications
  • Improve configuration management system

Qualifications

• Strong proficiency in Python for services, tooling, and automation
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Solid understanding of software testing practices
• Experience with REST API design and implementation
• Ability to work effectively across software, infrastructure, and operations teams

Requirements

• Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. personnel security clearance
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field, plus 3+ years of hands-on software engineering experience
• Experience with database systems (SQL and/or NoSQL), query writing, and schema design
• Demonstrated experience improving developer experience: test infrastructure, local dev tooling, or deployment automation

Additional Skills (Preferred)

• Experience with cloud platforms and SRE/DevOps practices
• Proficiency in Linux system administration and performance tuning
• Dashboard and data visualization development
• Experience with high-performance or real-time Linux systems tuning (IRQ affinity, CPU isolation, kernel parameters)
• Background in observability tooling: structured logging, distributed tracing, alerting

Benefits

• Global workforce: flexible remote/hybrid opportunities
• Work on complex, meaningful missions with real-world impact
• Unlimited paid time off for most roles
• Competitive salary and equity packages
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage
• Access to the forefront of commercial space operations and defense innovation